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Even before Gabe and Jessica left Idaho, an idea had supposedly been floating around that he would go into business with Bob Kennelly and his mother concerning a bed-and-breakfast place. Gabe and Jessica would manage the B and B. At least, that scenario was present in Gabeâs mind, but none of that ever went beyond the dreaming stage.
There was also another option that never went anywhere. When Robin moved in with Bob, she had her own house in Bandon, which no one was living in. Gabe and Jessica thought they might be able to move in there. As Jessica explained later, âThat house had not been lived in for about a year by the time we arrived. And it needed a lot of work. It was really disgusting. It never got new drywall. And so it never happened.â
Gabe promised to go to work in Bandon, but it was Jessica who got work first. She applied for and got work at Bandon Bookkeeping. Right from the start, Jessica proved what a good worker she was. She was very competent and got praise from the owner of the establishment and from her coworkers.
As far as Gabe went, it was altogether a different story. He did approach his stepfather, James Anstey, with a business proposal. However, it was not one that James wanted to hear. Gabe said he would drive to Nevada, steal items there and secret them back to Oregon, where they could be sold at Jamesâs antique store or on eBay. James turned him down flat.
James wondered what had become of the bright, cheerful boy he had once known. Gabe now was very troubled and angry all the time. He seemed to have lost his moral compass as well. It was incredible that heâd been a deputy sheriff not that many years before and still claimed that he followed the tenets of the Mormon Church.
Stymied by Jamesâs unwillingness to go along with his illegal scheme, Gabe turned to something controversial that was now legal in Oregon. He proposed to Bob and Robin that he start a medical marijuanaâgrowing operation on Bobâs property. Neither Robin nor Bob smoked marijuana, but they agreed to go along with this. It would at least provide Gabe with some income.
In December 2009, Bob, Robin and Gabe applied for, and were granted, medical marijuana cards. Gabe might have been able to do this by citing an arm injury while he was a deputy sheriff. Whether he really had sustained an arm injury was up for debate. They were also granted the right to grow marijuana on the property.
It soon became apparent that Gabe liked smoking his product more than trying to make a living from it. He was also hitting the booze very hard. He even bragged during this time period that he was drinking a bottle of hard liquor per day, along with countless beers. For someone who still professed to be an active member of the Latter-day Saints Church, he certainly wasnât acting like a responsible member of that faith.
Even worse, Gabe was the caregiver of Kalea by now. He constantly smoked dope around her, and he kept marijuana paraphernalia in her room, as well as âroaches,â the burnt remains of marijuana cigarettes. Gabeâs main â jobâ became sitting around the house, getting high and playing computer games. He was as addicted to those games as he was to booze and dope. He could barely be pried away from the computer screen to eat or take care of Kalea. It was an irritant to Bob that Gabe couldnât seem to tear himself away from the games to help around the place.
One of the games that Gabe was addicted to was called Perfect World. It was a game where people socialized and tried to create their own alternate reality of life, as compared to the one they were actually living.
One of the people with whom Gabe interacted a lot in this game was a young woman named Judy Ward (pseudonym), who lived in Dumfries, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Judy later spoke of how she met Gabe: âWe met through one of the servers, and we just happened to
Even before Gabe and Jessica left Idaho, an idea had supposedly been floating around that he would go into business with Bob Kennelly and his mother concerning a bed-and-breakfast place. Gabe and Jessica would manage the B and B. At least, that scenario was present in Gabeâs mind, but none of that ever went beyond the dreaming stage.
There was also another option that never went anywhere. When Robin moved in with Bob, she had her own house in Bandon, which no one was living in. Gabe and Jessica thought they might be able to move in there. As Jessica explained later, âThat house had not been lived in for about a year by the time we arrived. And it needed a lot of work. It was really disgusting. It never got new drywall. And so it never happened.â
Gabe promised to go to work in Bandon, but it was Jessica who got work first. She applied for and got work at Bandon Bookkeeping. Right from the start, Jessica proved what a good worker she was. She was very competent and got praise from the owner of the establishment and from her coworkers.
As far as Gabe went, it was altogether a different story. He did approach his stepfather, James Anstey, with a business proposal. However, it was not one that James wanted to hear. Gabe said he would drive to Nevada, steal items there and secret them back to Oregon, where they could be sold at Jamesâs antique store or on eBay. James turned him down flat.
James wondered what had become of the bright, cheerful boy he had once known. Gabe now was very troubled and angry all the time. He seemed to have lost his moral compass as well. It was incredible that heâd been a deputy sheriff not that many years before and still claimed that he followed the tenets of the Mormon Church.
Stymied by Jamesâs unwillingness to go along with his illegal scheme, Gabe turned to something controversial that was now legal in Oregon. He proposed to Bob and Robin that he start a medical marijuanaâgrowing operation on Bobâs property. Neither Robin nor Bob smoked marijuana, but they agreed to go along with this. It would at least provide Gabe with some income.
In December 2009, Bob, Robin and Gabe applied for, and were granted, medical marijuana cards. Gabe might have been able to do this by citing an arm injury while he was a deputy sheriff. Whether he really had sustained an arm injury was up for debate. They were also granted the right to grow marijuana on the property.
It soon became apparent that Gabe liked smoking his product more than trying to make a living from it. He was also hitting the booze very hard. He even bragged during this time period that he was drinking a bottle of hard liquor per day, along with countless beers. For someone who still professed to be an active member of the Latter-day Saints Church, he certainly wasnât acting like a responsible member of that faith.
Even worse, Gabe was the caregiver of Kalea by now. He constantly smoked dope around her, and he kept marijuana paraphernalia in her room, as well as âroaches,â the burnt remains of marijuana cigarettes. Gabeâs main â jobâ became sitting around the house, getting high and playing computer games. He was as addicted to those games as he was to booze and dope. He could barely be pried away from the computer screen to eat or take care of Kalea. It was an irritant to Bob that Gabe couldnât seem to tear himself away from the games to help around the place.
One of the games that Gabe was addicted to was called Perfect World. It was a game where people socialized and tried to create their own alternate reality of life, as compared to the one they were actually living.
One of the people with whom Gabe interacted a lot in this game was a young woman named Judy Ward (pseudonym), who lived in Dumfries, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Judy later spoke of how she met Gabe: âWe met through one of the servers, and we just happened to
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